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RandalFlagg
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What's your opinion on tip jars?
#7817062 - 12/31/07 01:19 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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About four years ago I started noticing every conceivable kind of store starting to put out tip jars on the counter. I had never seen this before. I had only ever seen waiters/waitresses and delivery people being tipped before. Now I have to tip the person who gets my hot chocolate or the person who spends 20 seconds making my burrito in front of me? It just seems weird to me. It's like a new social paradigm or something.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7817095 - 12/31/07 01:30 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't mind the tips jars. I saw one at Dunkin Donuts yesterday. Its a good place for me to get rid of pennies and nickels that would otherwise just end up spending eternity in my car's ashtray. With dimes I can take em or leave em. But I always keep my quarters. I don't know whose idea it was to start putting tip jars on counters across the nation but I'm sure the people behind those counters don't expect anyone to put much in there. Usually I notice that the jar has got mostly dimes, nickels and pennies, a few quarters and sometimes a dollar bill
I think it was a pretty good idea since most people are usually willing to part with change and gives these workers a chance to go home with a couple extra bucks in their pockets. God knows their paychecks are crap.
And Randall, just because theres a tip jar doesn't make it your obligation to leave a tip. You don't have to if you don't want to. Thats why its a tip.
Edited by BoneMan (12/31/07 01:32 PM)
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7817096 - 12/31/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I hate to visit the USA because of the tipping thing. It is never expected to tip in the UK unless you go to a posh restaurant or something. It makes people say all that 'have a nice day' shit when they don't really mean it.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7817097 - 12/31/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think tip jars are bullshit. I consider myself a very good tipper when it is appropriate (20-25% for service related jobs i.e. , waiter's/waitress's, bartenders, ect.) However the highschool kid who hands me the pizza i am picking up is definately not going to get me to put any money in a jar marked "tips". Its almost like they are begging for money. Im sorry but I work for my money and i dont get any hand outs.. so those people that have tip jars and arent working for the extra money shouldnt get it.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: Baeosistine]
#7817109 - 12/31/07 01:35 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Baeosistine said: It is never expected to tip in the UK unless you go to a posh restaurant or something.
Isn't the tip included in the bill over there? Its called service charge or something to that effect. I'm not sure if thats the case in the UK but I've been told thats how it is in most of Europe. In the US tips are optional but customary, and tend to reflect the quality of the service.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: BoneMan]
#7817155 - 12/31/07 01:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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US tips are optional but customary, and tend to reflect the quality of the service.But some places do a have service charge.I've notice that, if the place has a service charge.Most of the workers, do a half ass job.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: Brainiac]
#7817196 - 12/31/07 01:59 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think everybody shout take a U-bent shit in one of them piss jars...
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: int21h]
#7817267 - 12/31/07 02:18 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I always throw my change in there because people that have tip jars need the money more than I do.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: int21h]
#7817372 - 12/31/07 02:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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int21h said: I think everybody shout take a U-bent shit in one of them piss jars...
You can't shit in the piss jar, man.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: Brugman]
#7817456 - 12/31/07 03:09 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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those are TIP jars?? I thought they were free samples
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7817556 - 12/31/07 03:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've never noticed tip jars,, most shops etc here have charity collection things tho. Some even have these 'drop a penny watch it spiral' boxes which is nice. These are always a win win situation,,,,
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7817759 - 12/31/07 04:40 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Steal them when no ones looking...that way when you come back you don't even have to think about tipping.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7817792 - 12/31/07 04:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Back in the mid 70's a friend put and ad in the Dallas,TX paper saying "send one dollar". He got just less than $10,000.
If your a regular with these people you may want to tip a little.If going in one time and never going back, no way.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: 2FiNiTe]
#7817805 - 12/31/07 04:53 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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2FiNiTe said: Steal them when no ones looking...that way when you come back you don't even have to think about tipping.
I watched my drunk friend get his hand stuck in a tip jar trying to snag a couple dollars once. Funny funny thing.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: Jadian]
#7819159 - 01/01/08 07:20 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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oh man..that reminds me of the time I saw a bum run past me out of Starfucks, with his hand stuck in the tip jar, and then a 1/2 second later 2 Starfuckers came out after him with brooms....all that was missing was the Benny Hill theme.
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I work at Dunkin Donuts and the tips are what I consider good. I make at least 100 bucks a week in tips, pays for some habits, basically.
I also live in CT though, which is a snobby, rich state.
Where you live probably accounts for tip quality.
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I love tip jars. I'm a waiter and usually end up with at least an extra $20 at the end of a good night.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: Apollyphelion]
#7819207 - 01/01/08 07:42 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Definately depends on where you work - When I worked in a posh boutique, people would ask for the "tip jar" when they were paying for their clothes/shoes (I worked on commission - so a tip jar was just gravy)
When I busted my hump at Kinko's on the lower east side - I could have donated blood, and no one would have tipped me.
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: Apollyphelion]
#7819266 - 01/01/08 08:20 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Apollyphelion said: I make at least 100 bucks a week in tips, pays for some habits, basically. Where you live probably accounts for tip quality.
remind me not to move to yankee land, I used to make about $700/week in tips on a 5 day work week, plus the hourly pay which brought me to around a thousand, maybe the poor southern rednecks are just more generous when it comes to tipping
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Re: What's your opinion on tip jars? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#7819321 - 01/01/08 08:57 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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God Damn.
Yeah, CT sucks, it's expensive, and I'm poor.
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